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Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks vol.9 Blog Tour

Hi quilters! If you are new to my blog, welcome! If you've been here before, welcome back! I'm so happy today to tell you about my 4th block that's been selected for Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazine! This block is not appliqued, like most of my blocks usually are. I decided to branch out and piece a block this time!

Scandinavian Sun is the result of playing around with fabric to see what happens. I love yellow and gray together. It's so peaceful to me. And my love affair with solids is no secret, so combining them both was my starting point.

Then I made a Log Cabin block with different widths of the "logs" to keep it from being too static. Look closely at the yellow portions of the block and you can see the log cabin block in there! Once that was done, I tried out an idea I've had for some time - instead of putting sashing around the block, what would it look like if I put the sashing through the center of the block? I love the effect - it's almost an optical illusion!

If I were to ever make this into a full-size quilt, I think I would make the yellow part different colors on all the blocks - using a mixture of prints and solids. I'd also experiment with alternating the grays. Maybe half the blocks would be bright print backgrounds with the light gray sashing and the dark gray skinny strips and half would be bright solids with the dark gray sashing and the light gray skinny strips. Oooh! I like that! Maybe we'll do a quilt along this summer!

Scandinavian Sun is the result of color and fabric play. The name pays homage to my Danish roots!

So now on to the good stuff - the magazine giveaway! Quiltmaker is giving one lucky reader a complimentary copy of Vol. 9. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below letting me know what color combinations you would use to make this block!

For more chances to win, head over to Quiltmaker's blog for links to more giveaways and to read about the story behind the blocks!

Comments

I think the first combination I would try would be purple/pink/green, sounds strange but really works. or orange instead of green. This block would also be great in red/green/white as a Christmas quilt or red/blue/white as a patriotic (USA) quilt. Lovely block thanks for sharing.

I'm starting to get on a yellow craze lately. I think I would try various yellows with a super bright orange. I made your Mod Posies block from vol. 8 into a table runner for spring. Love it. svonfumetti at yahoo dot com

i would use black, and bright solid colors.maybe use the bright in place of the yellow and black to tie it all together or vice versa. i love your block and hope i win so i can try to make it. thank you for sharing and congrats on getting your block published. i am also a new follower via email. babscorbitt@gmail.com

Love your block! I think the color combinations are endless. I love yellow and grey. One of my guest bedrooms is done in yellow and grey I find the color combination very relaxing. Thanks for the giveaway!

I really love this block. I love the colors you've chosen, so I've having a hard time coming up with my own. I usually like fall colors though, so maybe an eggplant purple, with a rusty orange and maybe a moss green? Congratulations on making it into the publication (again) and thank you for sponsoring the giveaway!

Your block is just beautiful. I think that I would make this block with a pale yellow back ground with a variety of plane and green prints and purple strips for the center...that would certainly be colorful and spring like. Thanks so much for sharing.

I think if I were to make your block, I would attempt to use up my Calico and Novelty prints. I have an ENORMOUS amount of Halloween Fabrics which I've been itching to use. I would put the prints in where the yellow is, the thin strips would be a spiderweb fabric. Black for the plus sign with a cute fussy cute pumpkin in the middle.....oh boy, I need to make this! :-) Thanks for the inspiring question!

I would totally have to sit down and play with colors. I liked your idea of scrappy, but I need to see the secondary patterns that emerge first! I like your idea of a QAL...don't think you snuck that one past.....

Your block is perfect and congrats on #4 published in magazine. Choosing to do subsequent blocks in different colors and prints will be interesting. Would love to see the result. Thanks for the chance to win Vol 9katztoo at exede dot net

The color combinations (solids and/or prints) are limitless. One option I would like to try would be: purple for the yellow, lavender for the light gray, bright orange for the sashing and a golden yellow for the skinnies. Thanks for sharing.

I would like to use a medium blue, red and white in your block! Orrrrr....orange, red, pink and white. Orrrr red, yellow and white! Heck, the possibilities are endless! I may just make of bunch of them in different colors!!

I love your block and your color selection. I am becoming more and more interested in grey in a quilt. I have sewn with all colors, and your block would be pretty with a wide variety of color combinations. Right now I am making an orange and blue quilt for a friend who will be graduating from the University of Illinois in a couple of weeks. I think your block would be marvelous in orange and blue and playing with the placement of the colors.

I'm always drawn to crisp looking blocks, and this is a winner! I also like the quilt in your cover picture. I like the color combo in your block, but right now, I'm drawn to teal, orange, yellow and lime, so maybe something with those.

What you've called grey looks blue on my monitor and blue and yellow is one of my favorite color combos. I can also picture this as a great scrap quilt block, using lots of different colors. Thanks for the chance to win a copy of Vol.9.

I love the simplicity and harmony of this block. In it, I'd use fresh blues and greens offset with white. I might reverse block colors and alternate them when I assembled the quilt. So many possibilities! I guess that's why I've just started quilting - every piece can be so original even though the pattern might have been done 1000 times before. It's such a wonderful mystery that old can be new again...every time.

Yellow and gray; what a unique combo. However, I'd probably switch the use of your yellow & gray in the block around, so that it's yellow on gray. And maybe have the thin sashing be a rich, dark red instead of yellow..